Use of Emotion Words by Korean English Learners

• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Jin-Kyong Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제17권 제4호, 193~206쪽, 전체 14쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2011.12.30

영문 초록

The purpose of the study is to examine the use of emotion vocabulary by Korean English learners. Three basic emotion fields, pleasure, anger, and fear were selected to elicit the participants’ responses. L1 English speakers’ data was also collected for comparison. The major results are as follows. First, English learners responded with various inappropriate verb forms like I feel~, I am~ while the majority of English native speaking teachers responded with subjunctive forms like I would feel~. In addition, L2 English learners used mostly simple and coordination sentences. Second, the lexical richness, measured through type/token ratio, was higher in English L1 data than in English L2 data. The proportion of emotion lemmas reflects the lexical richness or the diversity of the emotion words. Lastly, L2 English learners’ responses focused on a few typical adjectives like happy, angry and scared. This structural and semantic distinctiveness of Korean English learners’ emotion words was discussed from pedagogical perspectives.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. LITERATURE REVIEW

Ⅲ. RESEARCH DESIGN

Ⅳ. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Ⅴ. CONCLUSION

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키워드

emotion words lexical richness